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φίλην (philen)

φίλην is an Ancient Greek form of φίλος, meaning “dear, beloved; friend”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.203: παῖδας ἑοὺς πάτρην τε φίλην, γεραρούς τε τοκῆας

Isaeus, On The Estate Of Pyrrhus 0: … μαρτυριῶν, Νικοδήμου καὶ αὐτοῦ μαρτυρήσαντος ἐγγυῆσαι Πύρρῳ τὴν ἀδελφὴν κατὰ τοὺς νόμους, ἐξ ἧς γεγονέναι τὴν Φίλην. ὁ Ἐνδίου δὲ ἀδελφὸς νόθην εἶναί φησιν, ἐξ ἑταίρας Πύρρῳ γενομένην, καὶ οὕτως ὑπὸ Ἐνδίου ἐκδοθῆναι Ξενοκλεῖ. …

All forms of φίλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.